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I already went far, far down that rabbit-hole for a max capacity 3.5" HDD + ZIL SSDs + L2ARC SSDs FreeNas 4U 10 GbE NAS on Supermicro/ASRock Rack DIY and Dell,

I already went far, far down that rabbit-hole for a max capacity 3.5" HDD + ZIL SSDs + L2ARC SSDs FreeNas 4U 10 GbE NAS on Supermicro/ASRock Rack DIY and Dell, HP, Lenovo and iXSystems. For home use, you're better off buying a used 2U-4U Supermicro or Dell box with an old Xeon or two. They're so cheap, buying new is like throwing money away on a new car with instant depreciation. In the Bay Area, you can even order up and swing by UNIX Surplus for some deals, although sometimes they're higher than the usual sources. I was going to get some of the WD HGST HC530 14 TB self-encrypting drives until they came out to ~$600 each. (Ouch.) The regular ones are <$400, similar to the ones BackBlaze uses.

darkwater 7y ago
> For home use, you're better off buying a used 2U-4U Supermicro or Dell box with an old Xeon or two. But these are not passive-cooled at all and are very, very, VERY noisy in a home environment.
- alkonaut 7y ago
  And also the electricity cost over the lifetime (say 10 years 24/7) is quite substantial. It makes no difference for a powerful server but for a small low power thing it can be quite a chunk of the total cost.
Kliment 7y ago
Uhm, those things sounds like a damn jet engine. The post above asked for a passively cooled part.
pedrocr 7y ago
I've been speccing something like this recently and you will definitely get a nice server for not much money. However the CPU performance may not be great compared to specifying a new low cost Ryzen with ECC Ram. And the power consumption will probably not be great either. Ryzen has made some great home server configurations quite affordable with its great performance, low cost, and ECC support.
ClumsyPilot 7y ago
I was considering getting one, but it's a much louder, larger and hotter running equipment than I want in my house. For my purposes it's much better to keep a dedicated Synology Nas for my data, and a couple low-power NUCs / compact pcs as a kubernetes cluster for actual hosting / experiments.

darkwater 7y ago

> For home use, you're better off buying a used 2U-4U Supermicro or Dell box with an old Xeon or two. But these are not passive-cooled at all and are very, very, VERY noisy in a home environment.

alkonaut 7y ago
And also the electricity cost over the lifetime (say 10 years 24/7) is quite substantial. It makes no difference for a powerful server but for a small low power thing it can be quite a chunk of the total cost.

Kliment 7y ago

Uhm, those things sounds like a damn jet engine. The post above asked for a passively cooled part.

pedrocr 7y ago

I've been speccing something like this recently and you will definitely get a nice server for not much money. However the CPU performance may not be great compared to specifying a new low cost Ryzen with ECC Ram. And the power consumption will probably not be great either. Ryzen has made some great home server configurations quite affordable with its great performance, low cost, and ECC support.

ClumsyPilot 7y ago

I was considering getting one, but it's a much louder, larger and hotter running equipment than I want in my house. For my purposes it's much better to keep a dedicated Synology Nas for my data, and a couple low-power NUCs / compact pcs as a kubernetes cluster for actual hosting / experiments.